Snaste vs Snasts - What's the difference?
snaste | snasts |
The burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle
*1626 , Francis Bacon, Natural History , page 127
*:Till some part of the candle was consumed, and the dust gathered about the snaste'; but then it made the ' snaste big, and long, and to burn duskishly.
*1865 , Edward FitzGerald, Works , page 426
*:A coming letter is foretold by a projecting spark on the snaste .
